Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Claude Pepper, 38, the drawling, slick-haired junior Senator from Florida, had his last word drowned in thunderous cheers when he keynoted for a "third term for Roosevelt's ideals." Josh Lee, the junior Senator from Oklahoma, caused pandemonium by yelling: "Now is the time to unleash the devil dogs of democracy and set them baying on the trail of the Wolf of Wall Street! America, now is the time to unsheathe the sword of human rights! Now is the time to raise the banner of Roosevelt...
...House's bloodlust. By Saturday, when Adams sent back the Deficiency bill, the House was relaxed, approved it swiftly. Leaders tried to soothe the session's accumulated seven-months bitterness. In the House they succeeded, in the Senate a diehard New Dealer, patent-leather-haired Claude Pepper of Florida, re-opened and salted afresh all the old wounds with a last-minute castigation of the anti-Administration "alliance." In words so cutting they skirted the edge of Senate rules he scourged the Republocrats for "putting personal grudge and party feeling above the welfare and safety of the American...
...jumped North Carolina's Bailey, old enemy of the Administration. Bailey asked Key Pittman, in the chair, if it would be out of order for him to call "Pepper's remarks 'cowardly and mendacious.' " Assured that it would, he snapped: "Then I will so characterize it to his face," stalked...
...more for WPA until June 30, instead of $150.000,000 more as demanded by President Roosevelt. With pain and blushes Majority Leader Barkley abandoned the President's figure in the face of certain defeat, while the President transferred leadership temporarily to Florida's opportunist Senator Pepper. The bill went to the President...
...draw him out on the campaigns. "In a Berry big speech a candidates began, "The question is Tobey or not Tobin'. One of the audience shouted back, 'Lemke out of here. Van Nuys is as bad as another.' The speaker yelled, "I Sawyer first and if you don't Pepper up I'll Clark you on the Crump...